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...Coin's Two Faces. Money is the commonest concern of mankind. Plain people talk about it constantly. In cafés, on trains, in bazaars, on front porches, over backyard fences everywhere in the world, money-the money price of things, the money rate for jobs-is the most common element in normal conversation. Not love, not crime, but money...
...Cafés and Costumes. Hiler held his first Paris one-man show of paintings in 1923, his first in the U.S. two years later. . But Parisians knew Hiler best as a bar and nightclub decorator (the Jungle, the Grand Duke, the Manitou), as a cafe lounger with Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, Man Ray. When nearly blind James Joyce could not see a drawing Hiler made of the writer's head, Hiler did another in thick charcoal which Joyce could follow with his fingers. Hiler also began to accumulate one of the world's best libraries on costume...
...News. In the Kansas City Star appeared a help-wanted ad: "Girl, lazy; only requirement that she love our baby; no Sundays, no cooking, no laundry, no nothin'." On a closed café in Bucyrus, Ohio appeared an explanatory sign: "No coffee, no sugar, no help, no oil, no heat and no profit...
...inaugurated in 1935 by ruddy, jovial Lawrence Gilliam, Cambridgeman and BBC features director. Since then BBC sound trucks have poked about England recording fox hunts, hop-picking festivals, markets, and building them into first-rate documentary radio shows. They also went abroad to record the sounds (sidewalk conversation, café colloquies, shopping talk, parades, music) of foreign cities...
...From 1918 to 1930 France luxuriated in every kind of regime which might be called republican-from horizon blue to the red Popular Front. . . . The ruin which the Popular Front has caused France is immeasurable. . . . The king of all was the corner caf...